Despicable. The fact that MAGA tried to BRIBE the Church in an effort buy the Papacy and that they are now attacking and slandering the Pope because he is centering the teachings of Christ rather than worshipping at the golden idol of Trumpism so clearly exposes their movement as the idolatrous sham that it is.
They aren’t true believers. They don’t care about Christianity or God. They care about appropriating the trappings of religion to serve their own greed and lust for power and cruelty. MAGA is a monument to sacrilege, blasphemy and sin.
They are literally complaining because they wanted the Pope to put Trump in the place of Jesus and honor and uplift Trump instead of God. That’s why they are upset about this Pope. They aren’t upset because the Pope acted against God or against the teachings of Jesus Christ. They are upset because the Pope criticized the sinful actions of a corrupt and evil mortal man and declared that his actions go against Christian teachings.
Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa have all seen their right-wing parties collapse in popularity since Trump took over.
We were headed for a hard-right turn, but this shift is absolutely unprecedented in modern times. The stark reality of a right wing nationalist future really got people to pay attention.
Unfortunately, it’s at the cost of the millions of us in the US who will now suffer
legitimately my first feminist awakening as a ten year old child was realizing that girls were expected to respect “boy stuff” but boys were never expected to respect “girl stuff”
my science fair project in fifth grade was basically i had this printout of a bunch of toys that were stereotypically boy toys and girl toys, and i would have my classmates study the sheet for some short period of time, idr if it was like 30 seconds or a minute or whatever, then put it away and had them recall to me as many toys as they could remember. my hypothesis was officially that boys would remember more boy toys and girls would remember more girl toys, but secretly in my head i knew that girls would probably remember boy toys and girl toys relatively equally but boys would still remember mostly boy toys. and that ended up being the case. and i still remember this 20 years later because it hasn’t fucking stopped. and you know what they didn’t even like my project. participation ribbon. i was a fifth grade feminist theorist and no one cared
He appeared before a county judge (via Zoom); she saw, examined, and verified his birth certificate, which was brought to her by the man’s mother. The judge confirmed that he is a US citizen and there is no probable cause to hold him on the charge of crossing into Florida as an undocumented immigrant*, because he is a US citizen.
However, she does not have the authority to dismiss the ICE order to detain him. So the jail, the prosecutor, the county sheriff, everyone involved, has decided to err on the side of caution by just keeping him there in jail until either ICE give them permission to let him go, or comes and gets him, or the order expires.
Because, you know, that’s the prudent thing to do these days, as a county or state official. Trump has declared that certain government agencies, individuals, and groups are answerable only to him, and not to the rule of law, so if they give you an order, you obey it whether it makes any sense or not. Because getting in Trump’s crosshairs is worse than, in this case, wrongfully imprisoning a fellow citizen.
The good news for this man, whose name is Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, is that the ICE order expires in 48 hours, at which time the jail will automatically be authorized to release him.
The bad news is that, as we have seen, if ICE does show up and collect him within those 48 hours, they could do literally anything to him, up to and including disappearing him to a supermax prison El Salvador–for the crime of being in Florida while Hispanic–and there will be no legal recourse or due process whatsoever.
So, that’s some real dystopian shit right there. Per the CNN article, it is looking like ICE is planning to let him go and frantically shift blame to one or more of the state or county-level agencies involved in this fiasco, but it’s still super-fucked up, and about all we can do about it is hope that, by making clear that we noticed–both that it happened, and that it’s super fucked-up–we will generate an atmosphere in which ICE et al. feel somewhat constrained from doing it again.
(*Florida recently made it a state-level offense for undocumented immigrants to enter the state. This law is currently suspended for review by the courts, so they shouldn’t be detaining anyone under suspicion of having violated this law. However, even if the law were in force, it would not apply to this man, because he is a US citizen.)
